Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Notes on a Cowardly Lion
The Biography of Bert Lahr
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
John Lahr’s stunning and complex biography of his father, the legendary actor and comedian Bert Lahr
Notes on a Cowardly Lion is John Lahr’s masterwork: an all-encompassing biography of his father, the comedian and performer Bert Lahr. Best known as the Cowardly Lion in MGM’s classic...
by Sidney Lumet
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Why does a director choose a particular script? What must they do in order to keep actors fresh and truthful through take after take of a single scene? How do you stage a shootout—involving more than one hundred extras and three colliding taxis—in the heart of New York’s diamond district? What...
Dangerously Funny
The Uncensored Story of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour -- the provocative, politically charged program that shocked the censors, outraged the White House, and forever changed the face of television.
Decades before The Daily Show, The Smothers Brothers...
Kind Is the New Classy
The Power of Living Graciously
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
“The world has a way of defining you if you don’t know who you are before you get out there.” —Candace Cameron Bure
As a woman in today’s world, you know what it’s like to feel pressure on all sides from clashing cultural expectations. How can you stay true to who God has uniquely...
by Bryan Cranston
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
“Nothing short of riveting...an engrossing first-person account by one of our finest actors” (Huffington Post)—both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion, and craft—Bryan Cranston, beloved and acclaimed star of one of history’s most successful TV shows, Breaking...
by John Leguizamo
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Fans of John Leguizamo's smash-hit one-man shows (Mambo Mouth, Spic-o-rama, Freak, and Sexaholix) have already gotten a glimpse into his life, but this book tells the whole story, carrying readers along on a wild journey from his childhood in Queens to his current home at the top of the Hollywood...
John Wayne
The Man Behind the Myth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
A rare behind-the-scenes look at John Wayne: the legend, hero, and Hollywood icon of numerous epic Western films, including an Academy Award-winning performance in True Grit.
No legend ever walked taller than “The Duke.” Now, author Michael Munn’s startling new biography of John Wayne...
Up Till Now
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
After almost sixty years as an actor, William Shatner has become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world. And it seems as if Shatner is everywhere. In Up Till Now, Shatner sits down with readers and offers the remarkable, full story of his life and explains how he got to be, well, everywhere.
It...
An Empire of Their Own
How the Jews Invented Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
A provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry.
The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, and Adolph Zucker are giants in...
by Erika Jayne
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Without her alter-ego Erika Jayne, Erika Girardi says she’d just be “another rich bitch with a plane”—so get ready for the dishy, tell-all memoir from show-stopping performer, model, singer, and beloved star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Erika Jayne.
Erika...
by Yunte Huang
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book: “An ingenious and absorbing book. . . . It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping story.”—Jonathan Spence
Hailed as “irrepressibly...
by Soleil Moon Frye
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
From Punky to parenting, Soleil Moon Frye shares insightful, realistic, in-the-trenches parenting advice, inspiration, and fun.
Enthusiastic, spunky, and positive, Punky Brewster was the quintessential eighties kid. Nearly thirty years later, Soleil Moon Frye-the adorable girl who played her...
Making Masterpiece
25 Years Behind the Scenes at Sherlock, Downton Abbey, Prime Suspect, Cranford, Upstairs Downstairs, and Other Great Shows
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The Emmy Award-winning producer of PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! reveals the secrets to Downton Abbey, Sherlock, and its other hit programs
For more than twenty-five years and counting, Rebecca Eaton has presided over PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre, the longest running weekly prime...
The Kids in the Hall
One Dumb Guy
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
It’s finally here — the definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall. Meticulously researched and written with the full cooperation and participation of the Kids by critically acclaimed biographer and comedy aficionado Paul Myers, The Kids in the Hall: One...